Just barely....

This weekend, we played Scrabbles. The boys wanted to do it in teams and quickly opted to form their team challenging Mamma and Dad. Equipped with a few dictionary we got ready for a fun game. The boys kept asking about the scores right after they had placed tiles, which meant we had yet to place our in the same round. Regardless of that momentary advantage, the boys were lagging behind. To their credit, they did not give up, not even when we managed to place all 7 tiles in one play, which meant we earned an extra 50 points.
We were in no hurry to finish, so we played an extended game, ie we played all weekend.
Maybe we were lulled into a false sense of confidence, maybe we just did not work hard enough to capture every available triple word tile, maybe we got sloppy - but our formidable lead suddenly shrank, and at one point we were even behind!  In the final few rounds, the game became increasingly competitive, where to place a high point single tile, where to get just a few points, even making a word some place on the board. Bob studied the board intently and found TV -Vneck, adding a single V and getting a lot of points - and we were back in the lead, but not by much. Neck and neck, we finished the last rounds and only by the skin of our teeth did these two parents win over their two sons, phew..

Two points still means  we win!

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